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The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and
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2019-03-20
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问题
The endless debate about " work-life balance" often contains a hopeful footnote about stay-at-home dads. If American society and business won’t make it easier on future female leaders who choose to have children, there is still the ray of hope that increasing numbers of full-time fathers will. But based on today’s socioeconomic trends, this hope is, unfortunately, misguided.
It’s true that the number of men who have left work to do their thing as full-time parents has doubled in a decade, but it’s still very small: only 0. 8% of married couples where the stay-at-home father was out of the labor force for a year. Even that percentage is likely inflated by men thrust into their caretaker role by a downsizing. This is simply not a large enough group to reduce the social stigma(污名)and force other adjustments necessary to supporting men in this decision, even if only for a relatively short time.
Even shorter times away from work for working fathers are already difficult. A study found that 85% of new fathers take some time off after the birth of a child—but for all but a few, it’s a week or two at most. Meanwhile, the average for women who take leave is more than 10 weeks.
Such choices impact who moves up in the organization. While you’re away, someone else is doing your work, making your sales, taking care of your customers. That can’t help you at work. It can only hurt you. Women, of course, face the same issues of returning after a long absence. But with many more women than men choosing to leave the workforce entirely to raise families, returning from an extended parental leave doesn’t raise as many eyebrows as it does for men.
Women would make more if they didn’t break their earning trajectory(轨迹)by leaving the workforce, or if higher-paying professions were more family-friendly. In the foreseeable future, stay-at-home fathers may make all the difference for individual families, but their presence won’t reduce the numbers of high-potential women who are forced to choose between family and career.
Why do few men take a long parental leave?
选项
A、A long leave will have a negative impact on their career.
B、They just have too many responsibilities to fulfill at work.
C、The economic loss will be too much for their family to bear.
D、They are likely to get fired if absent from work for too long.
答案
A
解析
推理判断题。文章第四段前四句指出,这样的选择(即长期休假)会影响到那些在组织中希望晋升的人。当你离开的时候,其他人会承担你的工作,替你完成销售,照顾你的客户。这些并不能有助于你的工作。这只能伤害你。由此可知,答案为A)。
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